Tweens' Sexy Dressing Debate Hits Nerve

Jennifer Moses, author of a recent WSJ article "Why Do We Let Them Dress Like That?" talks with Kelsey Hubbard about the tempest her piece has provoked.

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I ... the lead just like that it's an article that ran a Wall Street Journal and it got a lot of attention author Jennifer Moses in an interview with us last week sees here again thanks for being an outlet to be here so I'm Kelsey Hubbard in the last week about this that when out and it caused a big reaction about a lot of people have the idea that young girls are dressing very sexy to get attention ... and the parents actually buy clothes and makeup or whatever for young girls ... letting them do it the top ... of that about the reaction ... the reaction was huge I was sooo in which a surprise actually I didn't know what a huge reaction of this article ... of the cars ... into a friend of mine put it into that cuz I was going on line over the weekend ... um which is late I wanna try to not go online ... I it's caused really Tempest in a teapot I think in part because it hit ... in getting her because it hit something around homes ... and a lot of us are feeling very hopeless and helpless right now to help the big issues the attorneys thinking they're homeless on the streets ... you know that God alone knows how to pay and people in Japan are getting on ... um and that that that how we jester daughter says something we we can pay attention to right here right now so I think that's part of Lycos such as to ... any also a follow-up to this article did a ... call and our on line shot lead from the readers are able to send you question in your answer then it was ... a look ... at some of the questions that were highlighted ... that means that came out and ... and the tone is that this conversation that one Raider Road and seems to be about people's discomfort ... that sexuality is it just did not call for parents to talk to their kids about sex and therefore ... the kids wanted to press a little bit more sexy it brings up that topic I'd rather just avoid it ... I think that's quite a lot of people groups have said either that we don't want to talk about sexuality or that were ... um will pimping all are kids out ... and ... I do think that we are kind of I'm ... a little skit so in this country that we can really puritanical that sex is not a good thing ... or other were hyper sexual icing ... of our youth and ourselves and certainly sex sells ... I'm sexy clothes seldom them the levy would die ... the death of the world are out there shaking it for all that with the making ... millions off of that that that the covers of magazines ... show scantily dressed typically when an ... um so and I can read the the the the the the media came into the discussion a lot in the rule media had ... and some of the women that you know are out there for young girls to look up to you mentally to God have ... begun adding a Paris holdings and her dashing him up in our last conversation actually fell a road and this ... question which ... is very interesting is that in fact it given the incentive driven nature of our American culture and Heritage girls wear alas they get attention they can get Jamie to get money ... they could be aimed at further in life should we not encourage them to do so if they can ... go further as an adult ... if they are attractive in ... the am looking ... well I guess ... how much the concern is that the media thing that's reading this I'm ... it says everything thing that striking um ... but she says girls and young women in Iran for that ... part look good of course they should of course we should show best selves you know switch in what why why should we go out looking like a million bucks ... but there's a ... huge ... difference between presenting herself in the world in an attractive light ... and presenting ourselves to the world is that we are key for me ... and you know guys will tell me grown man who were once you know ... horny little boy ... um ... you play with but that's led with ... little in Oakland and daughter saying like I know what I was lying to ... you know and we all knew that those girls who were showing their ... various parts ... were the easy girls ... and now we respect them so that the attention it works ... I don't think that the tension ... you want I mean I know from being having been a ... teenage girl myself ... that sometime firm attention ... is better than no attention in a few kind of ... a depressed do you don't feel good about yourself or you feel stand very few large ones are all these bad feelings that we as human beings can feel but particularly in adolescents ... sometimes it feels ... that the reflate the drug to be chased into the desirable ... feel good compared feeling empty and self esteem was another Phoenix I wanna have some news just mention it was the Iris and that really care that is something they came up ... in discussion than ... I knew no one father and I recently attended a father daughter dance is out as eleven years old a native the older girls were dressed quit scantily ... how much of her role CAM said the father play how ... we know that that Danny is a good daddy got what from ... dad is really out for his daughter's death in shares ... is going to ... unravel in her beauty ... mammal in her ... enthusiasm ... of blocks opinion one and then eventually if the grower and ... part of her beauty is her femininity she does she's not in and she's not stay she got hers ... that's a good thing that's who we Iowa women ... were not manned ... um but also ... teaching his daughter along with his wife ... that there is a weed in prisoners' cells in certain ways ... um if it's a wonderful message for products in the sink look ... talk about ... the political aspects of this again a lot of comments on ball side the aisle twenty make a well it for that to me if this is not a political issue ... raising our children to be proud of themselves and respect themselves as human beings ... and therefore to respect others ... is a sham in issue ... for families you it is not a political issue and it was interesting to me that ... the right kind of ... grabbed this article as proof proof Kewell ... that feminism is going to are ... now ... giving women providing When with equal opportunities to be their best selves ... is not a bad thing that's what feminists and this ... Andrew N Delek has grabbed on this that this is more evidence that the rate that is trying to shut down women's choices ... who know ... them isn't in my mind because of the Alps ... women and young girls were going to be women ... knowing that there be a part they are strong ... people ... from the inside out not from the outside in times of great time and thank you so much for legalizing online controversy and serve on the pier to him and he ... added being read Jennifer EMS's author and as this it is also written about the whole thing grants and see you on the Beidou ... I'm Kelsey Hubbard for The Wall